Originally published on EV Obsession.Copper foam batteries — a new, cheaper-to-manufacture, faster-to-charge, and longer-lasting alternative to the batteries in common use today — may soon be headed to the commercial market as a result of the efforts of a new startup created by researchers at Colorado State University. The first prototype will be finished within the year, according to the researchers, with third-party testing following after .. ...

We interrupt our all-Tesla-all-the-time programming for this special announcement: Genovation Cars, a company that all but dropped off the radar a couple of years ago, is partnering in a new hybrid EV battery research project that combines a high density battery pack with an ultracapacitor pack and a DC/DC converter based on silicon carbide.If all that sounds like a heavy load to carry, guess again. Genovation and its research partner,

Everyone want hybrid-like fuel economy, but not everyone wants to pay the premium price for a hybrid car. The Ford Fiesta with the 1.0 liter EcoBoost could be the proper alternative to a more-expensive hybrid, offering up to 45 mpg on the highway for a starting price of just $16,445 (plus a $795 destination fee). Ford may have just undercut its own hybrids with this move.To wit, the 1.0 liter, 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine provides the 2014 Ford Fie ...

EVs - Tesla Motors and Panasonic sign battery supply deal for 2 billion cells
Tesla Motors and their battery supplier, Panasonic, announced on Wednesday an agreement in which Panasonic will expand supplies of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. This expands on their 2011 agreement, and under the new agreement Panasonic will supply over 2 billion cells over the next four years. The cells will be used in both the Model S and Model X.

English: 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car at the 2011 Washington Auto Show (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Technology mandates have so many problems that it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps the epitome of mandates is the comment from the American philosopher Moses Howard, ?You?ll take it and you?ll like it.?

Tesla's West Coast Superhcarger Corridor opened today, making it possible for owners of the Model S to travel free between San Diego and Vancouver, using Highway 101 and Interstate 5. This makes a Supercharger reachable within 200 miles to over 99 percent of Californians and 87 percent of those in Oregon and Washington.A lot of attention has been paid to Tesla's efforts to make a coast-to-coast trip in one of its vehicles a reality, via Superchar ...

Originally published on EV Obsession.Copper foam batteries — a new, cheaper-to-manufacture, faster-to-charge, and longer-lasting alternative to the batteries in common use today — may soon be headed to the commercial market as a result of the efforts of a new startup created by researchers at Colorado State University. The first prototype will be finished within the year, according to the researchers, with third-party testing following after ...

We interrupt our all-Tesla-all-the-time programming for this special announcement: Genovation Cars, a company that all but dropped off the radar a couple of years ago, is partnering in a new hybrid EV battery research project that combines a high density battery pack with an ultracapacitor pack and a DC/DC converter based on silicon carbide.If all that sounds like a heavy load to carry, guess again. Genovation and its research partner, the U ...

Everyone want hybrid-like fuel economy, but not everyone wants to pay the premium price for a hybrid car. The Ford Fiesta with the 1.0 liter EcoBoost could be the proper alternative to a more-expensive hybrid, offering up to 45 mpg on the highway for a starting price of just $16,445 (plus a $795 destination fee). Ford may have just undercut its own hybrids with this move.To wit, the 1.0 liter, 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine provides the 2014 Ford Fie ...

English: 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car at the 2011 Washington Auto Show (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Technology mandates have so many problems that it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps the epitome of mandates is the comment from the American philosopher Moses Howard, ?You?ll take it and you?ll like it.? ...

Tesla's West Coast Superhcarger Corridor opened today, making it possible for owners of the Model S to travel free between San Diego and Vancouver, using Highway 101 and Interstate 5. This makes a Supercharger reachable within 200 miles to over 99 percent of Californians and 87 percent of those in Oregon and Washington.A lot of attention has been paid to Tesla's efforts to make a coast-to-coast trip in one of its vehicles a reality, via Superchar ...

(Phys.org) —Air travel may be fast and convenient, but exhaust from the millions of flights that take-off and land each year worldwide is having an impact on the health of the planet. Fortunately, a Ryerson researcher is studying how to make airplanes more environmentally friendly .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-super-aerodynamic-wing.htm

Charge/discharge capacities vs cycle numbers of GO-S-Amy at different sulfur loadings. Credit: ACS, Zhou et al. 2013 a. Click to enlarge.Researchers in the lab of Hector AbruÃ±a, the Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, have developed two approaches to improve the durability and performance of lithium-sulfur battery cathodes. A paper on one method is published in the journal ACS Nano, while a paper on ...

Surprising absolutely no-one who was paying attention to what the cool kids were riding, Honda’s Grom 125 new-age monkey bike is sold out. The Grom is so hot right now that, not only have dealers sold out, there are waiting lists. In some cases, waiting lists 40 buyers deep, with many would-be buyers offering to pay more than Honda’s $2999 asking price – which is, itself, a bit more than what most 125 cc scooters currently go for.As I said, this ...

CARS - High Mobility Launches To Give Cars The Power Of Apple's iBeacon

With High Mobility‘s hardware installed in a car, a driver could park next to a parking meter, get out of the car and walk away. The car pays for the parking itself using the driver's smartphone and a dealer-installed High Mobility hardware. Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, the company claims the interaction is seamless for the user, that more features are on the horizon, and that their product solves a big problem for auto manufactu ...

A recent project by University of Alberta researcher Robert Hayes yielded more than just a way to reduce the use of precious metals in controlling emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles. His work also boosted the engine's fuel efficiency .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-metal-diesel.htm

CARS - Review: 2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium

Filed under: Hatchback, Ford, New Car ReviewsYou might not be interested in owning a subcompact (B-segment) hatchback for $20,000. Let's be clear from the get go here: there are any number of reasonable arguments for staying away from the highest-content versions of these small cars. Ford's player in the B-segment arena is the newly updated 2014 Fiesta, and the Titanium trim represents the most luxurious instantiation of the model. We recently we ...

Is it possible we could see 3.3 million zero emissions vehicles on American roads by 2025? That’s the ambitious dream of eight states across the country, which inked an agreement last week to try and nudge the fledgling green vehicle market into electric overdrive.Governors from California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont signed a cooperative proposal which identifies “specific actions they will pr ...

Originally published on EV Obsession.I’m a big fan of ranking… just like the rest of you. However, I generally hate that most rankings are presented in absolute terms rather than relative terms. For example, there are many rankings of the “best electric car cities” based on the total number of electric cars, total number of public electric car charging stations, etc. Much better would be if these cities we ranked based on electric cars per c .. ...

Originally published on Planetsave.com.The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Vehicles program recently released an updated version of its rather comprehensive “backgrounder” on electric vehicles — “how much the technology is growing in the country, the opportunities it presents for consumers and automakers, and the challenges facing its adoption,” to be specific. Also included in the updated backgrounder is which automakers are now invest .. ...

It’s been said that women control most of the major purchasing decisions in the traditional family unit, especially when it comes to cars. Women are driving the growth of the small car and green car segments, and the Nissan Leaf is high on the list of many lady car buyers. Women now account for about 30% of Leaf purchases, and the average age of Leaf buyers is dropping too.At the beginning of 2013, women accounted for just 10 to 15% of Nissan Le ...

Filed under: Safety, TechnologyAfter several years and thousands of miles of testing autonomous cars in California and Nevada, Google finally has something to show for its work - other than driving a blind man to get a taco. According to Technology Review, Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program, says that Google has data showing that autonomous cars are safer and smoother than actual drivers. This, of course, is a big improve ...

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla MotorsLet's start this post the same way we did when we mentioned the news of the first Tesla Model S fire earlier this month: there are hundreds of thousands of vehicles fires around the world every year. But, whenever an electric vehicle goes up in flames - no matter what the cause - the incident is almost always conflated into a bigger story about EVs and their long-term viability. There's no real logic to this, ...

I was hoping to be able to attend the Tesla London store launch, but alas had to head back to the Bay Area at the end of the Summer before the official opening. But Green Car Reports attended the launch late last week and snapped these pics. As predicted it’s in the Westfield Mall near Notting Hill and Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the event. Tesla will be selling right-hand-drive Model S cars for the first time in the U.K.Story posted at: green ...

Powerful scanners that give scientists a direct line of sight into hydrogen fuel cells are the latest tools Simon Fraser University researchers will use to help Ballard Power Systems Inc create more durable, lower-cost fuel cells. Use of these fuel cells in vehicles can substantially reduce harmful emissions in the transportation sector .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-gain-view-fuel-cells